Chief Executive Officer | episode 450

XPRIZE fights COVID with Tech & Innovation

Anousheh Ansari is the Chief Executive Officer of XPRIZE Foundation, the world’s leader in designing and operating incentive competitions to solve humanity’s grand challenges. Anousheh’s family sponsored the first XPRIZE, which sparked the private space industry by offering $10 million for the first private organization to launch a reusable manned spacecraft into space twice within two weeks. She is also well-known for being the first female private space explorer, the first astronaut of Iranian descent, the first muslim woman in space, and the fourth private explorer to visit space.” Prior to joining XPRIZE, Anousheh was CEO at Prodea Systems, an IoT company she co-founded in 2006. April 23, 2020

450: XPRIZE Foundation CEO Anousheh Ansari discusses XPRIZE’s Pandemic Alliance, a global coalition of corporate, academic, and non-governmental partners focused on accelerating solutions to the coronavirus pandemic. In the short-term, that means expanding visibility into solutions underway in areas such as remote care and access to testing. We also discuss the XPRIZE Data Collaborative which provides access to exclusive data sets and AI capabilities, how XPRIZE facilitates resource and idea sharing between alliance members, and why XPRIZE is well positioned to bring together uncommon partners to tackle this historic challenge.

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The World Class IT principles in yellow were the focus of this interview

  • 01 1- People
  • 02 2- Infrastructure
  • 03 3- Project and Portfolio Management
  • 04 4- IT & Business Partnership
  • 05 5- External Partnerships

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